Randle was expected to take over as the Cowboys starting running back this season in the wake of DeMarco Murray. Through five games, the results were unimpressive, and following a strained oblique and breakout performance from Darren McFadden, the Cowboys demoted Randle.

This is when he left the Cowboys practice facility unannounced, which reportedly bothered team officials who wanted to help Randle heal his injury.

Randle didn’t play the Cowboy’s Week 8 game against the Seahawks, in part because of the strained oblique, but also because of these personal matters. Jones said, “We want to really be supportive and help when we can and not act in a way that looks like the priority would not be your health, but what about your job, what about your football team.”

Over one week, Randle went from a starting running back to being unemployed by the NFL.